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An independent initiative, with some irreverent air, directed to creative and restless young people who want to have fun. A contest in which you can participate from home.

Tips on liquids to drink in summer. Summer arrives and we must keep an eye on the fluids that lost our body, and somehow we must replace the fluid to be and feel healthy.

Nothing better than water to replenish nutrients, but also there are other tips that we must bear in mind when it comes to drinking. The following 11 Tips refreshing:

1. Water is the best choice to quench the thirst.

It is a key ingredient to keep the body cool. With high levels of humidity, sweat not evaporating quickly. This prevents the body to release heat more efficiently. For this reason, it is necessary to hydrate and drinking water, even though it has no thirst. Increase water intake, irrespective of their levels of activity.

2 Avoid drinks with caffeine or carbonated beverages, alcohol, and high in sugar.

All these drinks contain preservatives, dyes, and sugars. They are acidic in nature, and act as diuretics. It cause fluid loss in the urine.

Many soft drinks contain phosphoric acid diluted, damaging the lining inside the digestive tract, and therefore affect their functions.

Non-alcoholic beverages also reduce the levels of minerals in the body in such a way that enzymes may not work well, resulting in indigestion.

3. Do not drink very cold liquids.

In fact, not help cool in summer. Drink very cold fluids when it is hot can lead to a slight constriction of blood vessels in the skin and reduce heat loss, that is not advisable when it comes to it to cool.

4 Limit any strenuous activity.

5 Have no fat and nutritious and light meals.

6 Reduce the intake of fruits and vegetables heaty, spinach, radish, chili pepper, onion, garlic, pineapple, beets, grapefruit and mango mature (if you can not resist the handles, be soaked overnight in water).

7 To minimize elconsumodefrutossecos. Increasing the intake of fresh fruit.

8 Includes lots of fruits and verdurasen formade salads and fresh juices, preferably without sugar in their diet.

9 Drink lemon juice, coconut water, and the fine butter, to replace the fluids that are lost in sweat

10 Avoid sugary foods, especially honey and molasses, and adhere to the available natural sugars from fruit and vegetables.

11 Minimize the intake of foods hot, spicy and very salty foods. The body retains emerging formaorgánica that is found in fruits and vegetables, the inorganic salt, for its part, is digested and needed to be cast out of the body. And why it is necessary to drink water

Nuts to lower cholesterol. The nuts are a major component of the healthy diet, given its high content of unsaturated fats and fiber, which contribute to the reduction of cholesterol, but also minerals, proteins, vitamins and other antioxidantsthat make these food truly natural health pills.

According to a study conducted by the Centre for research in biomedicine in network pathophysiology of obesity and nutrition (CIBERobn), dependent of the Ministry of science and innovation, theconsumohabitual defrutossecos significantly reduces the levels of cholesterol, triglycerides , and therefore, cardiovascular risk, especially in those people who have higher cholesterol are thinner or follow a diet little healthy.

For this reason it is advisable to use as a first tool elconsumodefrutossecos, to lower levels of colesterol. The report, published in larevistaArchives of Internal Medicine, has compiled the individual data of 583 people of both sexes participated in 25 studies on elconsumodefrutossecos in seven countries. After the analysis of the results, researchers have claimed that "all losfrutossecos reduce elcolesteroly triglycerides in a similar way".

One of the conclusions of the research, carried out in collaboration with the University of California, reveals that elconsumodefrutossecos helps to reduce elcolesterolmalo, without affecting alcolesterolbueno, which is why we recommend suconsumopara reduce the cholesterol and cardiovascular risk.

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Diets low in carbohydrates harmful to health. Currently have demodalas dietashiperproteicas or low in carbohydrates, but this entails consequences

High-protein diets are the road fast, with them is reduced weight, but you need to know that he brings negative effects that affect patient lasaluddel, are not healthy and eventually just recovering the lost weight, because > exercise rebound effect.

Inadequate nutrition is large physiological on the body, changes these changes fisioológicos are immediate, so may carry long-term, pathological problems to renal, cardiac or hepatic, level although they may develop soon with more aggressive.

The immediate influence of estasdietasaltas in protein and low carbohydrate in the nervous system, in cases of patients with epilepsy can be seen and used in them, when it is impossible to control the crisis with the medication, so they enter controlled ketosis and slow thus impulses nerve.

It is important before starting a diet of any type, that is properly controlled and justified by the medical, food must be balanced and should contain all the nutrients, whether it quiereadelgazarcomo if not; also must be borne in mind that not all lasdietassurten the same effect in all patients.

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Natural weight loss foods. According to a study conducted at the school of public health from Harvard, it was found that the people that rises elconsumode natural foodsrich in fiber, such as almonds, walnuts, pistachios and otrosfrutossecos of hard shell, as well as fruits, vegetables and yogurt, really drop weight.

Scientists indicate that against more healthy products eaten, more weight will be lost in the long-term, though that more aid is yogurt. In a study conducted at 120,000 people, mostly women, are them realizóun record for 20 years, to calculate the loss or gain of body weight.

The food associated with the largest increase in weight were the French fries, as each additional daily portion of French fries, produced an increase of almost a kilo and a half and similarly with the meat and the drinks sugary.

Products that achieved a reduction in body weight were healthy, as the hard shell frutossecos, whole grains, vegetables and yogurt, but more siorprendente was that the consumption of additional portions of yogurt yfrutossecos each gave, had more impact on weight loss in comparison with elconsumode fruits and vegetables.

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Aqua-jogging, exercises in the water to tone up the body in holidays. Aqua-jogging are exercises in the water. It is especially recommended for people who are recovering from injuries, this way is and prevents injuries.

Also aqua-jogging is ideal for holidays, so do not abandon the exercise during the hot months, and we can teach all lafamiliaa make them. It is a fun way to exercise no sweat!

Aqua-jogging tips:

Should be water shallow if it is necessary to use life-saving jacket...Start with a warm-up, just as you would with any other sport. Get into the water and swim for 2-3 minutes to get heat in your body.In deep water, where suspiesno can touch the bottom simulate function to run as if did it in soil.Try to use the same good shape to run.Does not tilt forward.Try to keep your body out of the water as much as possible.Keep the shoulders back and the head and eyes looking towards the horizon.Try to simulate his style, not paddle with their hands. You must maintain its lightly clenched fist, can swing their upper arms faster to intensify your workout.If cooled, remove the device of flotation and swim for 2-3 minutes.Exercise for more or less half an hour every day, in a week you will see results.

Beer in the summer diet: presentation of the manual of beer. East Thursday 30 June, between the 10: 30 and 13: 30 on the terrace of the Magadan, Pº Pintor Rosales s/n - face no. 52, in Madrid, will take place the presentation of the "Beer, hydration and older" Manual, which will expose all the advantages of beer in the summer.
This manual has ssido developed by the SEDCA, in collaboration with the Centre for information beer and health and has been endorsed by FHOEMO, andn he presents the advantages it is beer, as it hydrates the body in summer, especially in older people, needed is the hydration.

As well as hydration resulting from the beer, it will reveal, given its content in Silicon, the benefits of this drink, for prevent the osteoporosis.

In this presentation intervendran Professor Jesús Román Martínez, President of the Scientific Committee of the Spanish of Dietetics and food science society and author of the textbook and Dr. Manuel Díaz Curiel, Chairman of the Hispanic Foundation of Osteoporosis and metabolic bone diseases.

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